... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...e to return to my old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent... ... while the children had the utmost difficulty or reluctance to learn French, they picked up English on the wayside, and as if by accident. On one of t... ...d. The long swell brimmed into the bay, and seemed to fill it full and then subside. Gently, deeply, and silently the Casco rolled; only at times a bl... ... rocks encroached upon the sand; the beach would be all submerged; and the surf would bubble warmly as high as to my knees, and play with cocoa-nut hu... ... that of the living, and the dead multiply and the living dwindle at so swift a rate. Conceive how the remnant huddles about the embers of the fire of... ...Tai-o-hae (the chief port of the island), there were shown in to us an old, worn, purblind, ascetic-look- ing priest, and a lay brother, a type of all... ...s chief adornment. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to communicate. The story of Gordon I told him in full, an...

... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... continued Distribution of fresh-water productions — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On ... ...e by Mr. Blyth, on the habits, voice, and constitution, &c., of the humped Indian cattle, that these had descended from a different aboriginal stock f... ... thinks that all the breeds of poultry have proceeded from the common wild Indian fowl (Gallus bankiva). In regard to ducks and rabbits, the breeds of... ... When we bear in mind that Britain has now hardly one peculiar mammal, and France but few distinct from those of Germany and conversely, and so with H... ...mmon cannot be disputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see wh... ... truth of these re- marks, and look at any small isolated area, such as an oceanic island, although the total number of the species inhabiting it, wil... ...ans such sunken islands are now marked, as I believe, by rings of coral or atolls standing over them. When- ever it is fully admitted, as I believe it...

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